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How should Christians respond to Chocolate Jesus?

The head of the Catholic League called the chocolate sculpture of the crucified Jesus, on display briefly this week in New York City, “one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever.” The protest caused the art gallery where the sculpture, dubbed “My Sweet Lord,” was being displayed to send it back to the artist’s workshop. As skirmishes over religion go, this one was fairly short-lived. But it happened during Holy Week, the most sacred week of the Christian calendar. What lessons can we draw from this latest battle between artistic expression versus deeply held religious beliefs? Or should we have ignored it altogether?

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By V for Vendetta

April 5, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

By eating him. :-)

By Kay

April 5, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

This situation reminds me of what I was told as a child when my sisters would do things that upset me: if you ignore them, they will stop. Well, even if Christians ‘ignore’ the Sweet Jesus, people still are going to critique Christianity just as they have throughout history(“there is nothing new under the sun”). However, freaking out about these kinds of things are, in my opinion, what gives Christianity a bad name. People think that Christians are these stuffy, no fun kind of people because we get SO upset about these small things. Let God deal with those people and those acts. We just need to take it with a grain of salt.

By katie

April 5, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this

I am a christian, and I think that it is a sad shame that so many people can be so distracted by such things. We have to remember people , and nations talk against Jesus, the Pharisees etc. Even today you have people speaking against Jesus, but it does not matter for he has the victory already over the sinner, if it didn’t brother him when he was here , in fact he prayed for those who crucified him, then we need to do the same. Lets stop getting catch up in wordly things, and concentrate on serving God.

By HellinahandBasket

April 5, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

Petty, immature and ignorant. To waste any time on getting angry over this is just plain ridiculous. Of all the things in this world to get upset over this rates as one of the lowest. Why not get enraged over things that should enrage you…take your pick: pedophiles, rape, abuse, drunk drivers, murderers, dishonest politicians (both parties), the state of our nations youth,illegal immigration and its affects on our social, health, educational and financial systems, stealing, gluttony, self righteous Christians and just plain rude and obnoxious people trying to control what we all think and say. Geez, people there is so much more out there that affects us negatively than a chocolate replica of Jesus.

By Showsomeguts

April 5, 2007 10:29 PM | Link to this

I’m all for a nude chocolate Jesus but be bold and place a nude chocolate Mohammed beside him. Then we won’t have to worry too much about seeing anymore of this “artist” or his work.

By Corey

April 6, 2007 8:32 AM | Link to this

If one looks at a naked statue of Jesus and can’t get past the anatomically correct aspect, it says a lot about that individual’s mindset. These same individuals are closet voyers of Angelos’s David and all other nude statues. Give me a f@#@% break!

By Bo

April 6, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

The “artist” is obviously an agent of Satan.

Christ the Lord wore clothes!! He walked the earth as the Son of God in sandals, white skin, a beard, and robes. Any depiction of him otherwise is blasphemy and should be dealt with by vengeful Christians filled with the Spirit of the Lord.

By Lewis Grizzard

April 6, 2007 7:45 PM | Link to this

I’m glad I died before blogs were invented.

By Jesus General

April 10, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

I’m not at all offended that the artist planned to shoot creamy nougat out of Our Saviours wounds or that he planned to serve Our Lord’s fine chocolate flesh to the public—it’s kind of what communion is all about, isn’t it?

Nor am I particularly upset with the artist for sculpting the Redeemer’s immaculate thingy, although the thought that the communion host transubstantiates into something with a penis is very discomforting, particularly because I get kind of excited when I think about it. Don’t get me wrong. I’m sure the Pope has had similar thoughts many, many times, so I guess it’s OK. I mean, it doesn’t make me any more homosexual than the Pope. Right?

I’m more concerned about the size of his sacred member. It looks like it must be, what, five inches long? That’s nearly three times longer than normal. You know the minute a guy’s wife sees something like that, the jokes about not being made in God’s image are going to start flying. It’s bad enough we’re always being called names like “Vienna Sausage Boy” and “Mr. Softy” as it is. Are we going to have to endure taunts about being a fallen angel or The Little Drummer Boy, too?

Signed,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

By King Tez

April 13, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

Well, in my opinion, I think Jesus is sweet. I wouldn’t mind having him in my mouth.

By Let's Face It

April 13, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this

The louder someone proclaims their Christianity, the lower their IQ.

By Jesus H Elf

April 17, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

I prefer vanilla so that I don’t make a mess on kid’s clothes. And I always wore sun screen. And please stop saying in your opening line “I am a Christian.” Because we all know you are not.

 

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